China’s PMI steps up in November. (Reuters) Greece begins to buy back some of its high-yield bonds. (Reuters) Delta Air Lines Inc. (NYSE: DAL) may buy Virgin Atlantic. (Reuters) Martin Marietta Materials…
According to October data published today by comScore Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), the mobile handset market share leader continues to be Samsung Electronics, followed by LG Electronics, Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL), Motorola, now…
Brian Katt / Wikimedia Commons / GNU Free Documentation LicenseThe short interest in the actively traded cult stocks and in some of the low-priced high-volume stocks saw some significant changes. We compared…
thinkstockA new deal to aid Greece may lead eventually to the forgiveness of some of its debt. (Reuters) The Obama administration decides not to name China as a currency manipulator. (Reuters) Nokia…
ThinkstockThe iOS operating system from Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) has reclaimed the lead in the U.S. smartphone sales race, according to the latest data from Kantar Worldpanel. In the 12 weeks ending…
U.S. equity markets opened higher this morning after taking a day off to celebrate Thanksgiving. Reasonably good news out of Europe this morning on several fronts. First, PMI numbers were above expectations…
U.S. equity markets opened slightly higher this morning following another week with more than 400,000 new claims for jobless benefits (more coverage here) and weak news from Japan on exports. In Asia,…
courtesy of BlackberryShares of Research in Motion Ltd. (NASDAQ: RIMM) topped $10 briefly today, the first time the stock has been at such a lofty perch since late June. The occasion was…
ThinkstockAlmost every major point in the Gartner third-quarter mobile phone report was expected. Sales rose 47% over the same period last year to 428 million. Samsung extended its lead as the largest…
courtesy of AOLAs a Justice Department investigation of Deepwater Horizon continues, BP PLC (NYSE: BP) may pay a record fine for the results of the disaster. (Reuters) Qatar says it would back…
courtesy of SamsungResearch firm Gartner says that worldwide sales of mobile phones to end users declined 3.1% year-over-year to nearly 428 million units in the third quarter of 2012. However, smartphone sales,…
courtesy of BlackberryBlackBerry maker Research in Motion Ltd. (NASDAQ: RIMM) today announced that its newest smartphones and operating system — BlackBerry 10 — would launch worldwide on January 30. The Canadian-based company…
ThinkstockThe short interest in the actively traded cult stocks and in some of the active low-priced shares is often volatile. We tracked some rather large moves up and down in this group…
ThinkstockA promotion of the new Nokia Corp. (NYSE: NOK) Lumia 920 is on the front page of the AT&T Inc. (NYSE: T) main website. The price is $99.99 with a two-year subscription…
thinkstockAmazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) will be able to sell cheaper e-books. (Reuters) Amazon is likely to win its showdown of e-books in Europe with Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) as the loser. (Reuters)…
